It lies just north of the border with the City of London near the Barbican Estate, and the Clerkenwell and Shoreditch areas.

[1] The area covered by the parish is the same as that previously occupied by the landholding known as the Manor of Finsbury.

The building was damaged by the Blitz of 1940, and the printing works were relocated in 1958 to Debden, Essex.

[3] The Grade II listed Ironmonger Row Baths were built as a public wash house in 1931.

The parish was historically in the county of Middlesex, and was included in the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855.

The vestry administered local government in the area until the civil parish became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury in 1899.

[5] The church building has been restored and is now home to a concert hall and rehearsal space used by the London Symphony Orchestra.

It has its origins in the gifts of land and money from benefactors to the ancient parish as far back as the 16th century.

St Luke's Parochial Trust purchased the building in 1979, and converted it to a community centre which was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1982.